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The disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai has told government investigators he has no knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death of British businessman Neil Heywood, The Daily Telegraph understands. Read more

An appeal by the Shanghai subway asking its female passengers to dress up in a “dignified” manner to avoid assaults by perverts, has drawn strong protests from women and war cries of ‘we have right to be coquettish’. Read more

Increasing discharge of pollutants and booming offshore human activity, such as oil exploration, are worsening China’s fragile marine environment, according to an annual report released by the country’s ocean watchdog. Read more

Wall Street JournalChina evacuates 571 from Yemen, suspends anti-piracy patrolsYahoo NewsThe official Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday that the 449 Chinese and six people of other unspecified nationalities who left the Yemeni coastal city of Al-Hodayda had arrived in Djibouti, which is located directly across the southern tip of the Red ...China Evacuates

New York TimesRhodes Scholarships Expanding to Include Chinese StudentsNew York TimesThe move into China, announced Monday, is the first step in what the program expects to be its biggest expansion since it made women eligible in the 1970s. It is meant to cultivate a more diverse crop of young people the program hopes will become ...and more »

Wall Street JournalAs China Expands Its Navy, the US Grows WaryWall Street JournalChina's navy chief, Adm. Wu Shengli, strolled the Harvard University campus in a tweed blazer and slacks during a visit to the U.S. last fall, joking with students and quizzing school officials about enrolling some of his officers. A few days earlier ...and more »

New York TimesChina Appears to Attack GitHub by Diverting Web TrafficNew York TimesBut in a recent series of attacks on websites that try to help Internet users in China circumvent this censorship, the Great Firewall appears to have been used instead as a weapon, diverting a portion of the torrents of Internet traffic that flow ...These Activists Are Plottin

Wall Street JournalChina to Delay Some Bank Technology RulesWall Street JournalBEIJING—China has agreed to delay implementation of some bank technology rules that have sparked heavy lobbying from the U.S. government and technology companies due to protectionist concerns, a senior U.S. Treasury official said Monday. While it is ...Jack Lew to discuss China te

Christian Science MonitorIran nuclear talks: What China brings to the negotiating tableChristian Science Monitor“When the two parties came across irresolvable problems, they would come to China, which would 'lubricate' the negotiation and put things back on track,” former Chinese ambassador to Iran Hua Liming told the state-run news agency Xinhua a

USA TODAYChinese court jails man for growing beardUSA TODAYBEIJING — A court in China sentenced a man from the country's mainly Muslim Xinjiang region to six years in jail for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" that included growing a beard, state-run media reported over the weekend. The man's wife was ...China jails a Muslim for si

QuartzPhotos: Inside China's unknown mega-cityQuartzTim Franco, a Paris-born photographer now based in Shanghai, has spent the past five-plus years documenting the intense change that urbanization has brought to the Chinese mega-city of Chongqing. Until 1997, Chongqing was a neglected city in the poor ...

Wall Street JournalChina Shares Surge on Easing HopesWall Street JournalChinese stocks surged Monday after Beijing signaled it can ease monetary policy to lift sluggish growth, with indexes in Hong Kong and Shanghai chalking up their biggest one-day gains in months. Capital flows into Hong Kong from China using the Stock ...Foreigners Head for Exits as China

QuartzAll of the countries joining China's alternative to the World BankQuartzUnable to increase its voice in the current institutions—China commands just 6.47% of the vote in the Asian Development Bank, 5.17% in the World Bank, and 3.81% in the International Monetary Fund—China is building its own alternative. The bank is ...China outsmarts US diplomac